I'm back from Chloe M's First Annual Vacation. This year it was Calgary / Canmore / Banff. What a trip! I didn't get to do everything, but you won't believe the things I got to do and to see!
I met the new baby of our family. She was born on August 13th. Her name is Elle, but they are calling her Ellie while she is little. She is 6 lbs some-thing-or-other, but her freakishly big feet are 3 inches long already!! All she does is eat, sleep, potty, and make little noises. Trish and Paul, her mom and dad, are looking a bit tired but none-the-worse for wear. Trish is breast feeding the little glutton and her doctor told her to stuff her bra with cabbage leaves for relief. TOO FUNNY!!
Trish and Paul also have a dog. His name is Cub. He's like 10 times as big as me...a husky-ish / shepardish mix...but he plays real gentle, being very careful not to squash me with his big paws and he uses his nose to roll and bat me around instead of his teeth. Thanks goodness!
I met two other dogs on my trip when we had dinner with Ron Carriere and his brood. He's got a young dog, a Westie, named Leroy and an old, little bit deaf dog named Bart. We all got along famously. They even let me eat their dog food and showed me how to help do the dishes after dinner.
We stayed in a wonderful condo in Canmore with a fantastic view! Bad part was going down 3 floors to go potty....had to hurry, hurry, hurry every morning with Magoo in her pj's. I went for long walks (they call them hikes out here), saw some wildlift that I'd never even dreamed of before, and I rode the gondola up to the top of Sulphur Mountain. Big Bear and Silly Sarah (I call her that because she always makes me laugh) hiked all the way up Sulphur Mountain to the top. It took them 1.5 hrs. I was a bit scared in the loading zones for the gondola because of all the noise, but it was cool once I was in the gondola. Giggles was waaaaaaaaay more scared than me! I took a scenic, guided boat tour around Lake Minnewanka to Devil's Gap. Magoo, Giggles, Silly Sarah, and Big Bear went on a helicopter ride over the mountains. There was more hiking, rafting, and a trip to the Calgary Zoo. We all went to Lake Louise too....wow!....beautiful! And did a short stint in BC when Fluffy accidentally drove way past the turn off on our way to Lake Louise. On our last vacation day I was smuggled in my Sherpa bag into the Royal Tyrell Museum which doesn't allow dogs. I bet I'm the only canine to have seen all those dinosaur bones in that fancy museum.
Then it was off to home. I must say I was a bit homesick by then. We drove and drove and drove and drove. I got so good at sleeping in the car that I could do it sitting up!
Sure is good to be home....for a day or two before I head off for a short stay in Gimli.
Here's some photos....click on them if you want to see a bigger version...also, for more photos, visit our Flickr website by clicking here. At the site, click on the Canmore album (on the right side) and, if you want, click to View as Slideshow.
